Barber&#39;s-appliance trolley



L. H. OLDENBURG.

BARBERS APPLIANCE TROLLEY.

- APPLmATloN FILEDA Nov. 21, 1919. 1,362,580..

Patented De@.14,192o.

2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

E III Il .fvllillllt 'stands are often upset or out of the barber chairs, particularly as LOUIS H. OLDENBURG, 0F OSI-IKOSH, 'WISCONSIN.v

BABBERS-APPLIANCE TROLLEY.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented De@ 14, 1920i Application filed November 21, 1919. Serial No. 339,671.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Louis H. OLDENBURG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barbers- Appliance Trolleys, and I do hereby decla-re the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to barber shop equipment, one of its general objects being that of providing sale, convenient and easily manipulated means whereby one vor* more electrically operated appliances can readily be used at a number of different chairs in the barber shop, and to provide this ar rangement in such a manner that all parts of the same will normally be entirely out oi the way of both 'the barbers yand their patrons.' Another object is that of providing ,a portable mounting lfor` electrically operated barber shop appliances which will not involve any-floor stand, and which can readily be installed in direct connection with the needed electric light xtures, so as not to require separate wall bracketsor ceiling pendants. Still another object is lthat of providing a portable and adjustable mounting for electrically operated barber shop appliances which will display advertising Vwhen' the appliances are in position for use,

and desirably to provide this in such a manner ,that advertising may partly be displayed directly and partly by reflect-ion from the wall mirrors. A further object of my'invention is that of providing a simple and automatically acting spring retracted support for the appliances, whereby this can be raised or lowered as desired while maintaining the operative connection to the sup* ply of current.

Y In modern barber shops, lit vhas, become more andmore customary to use` electrically 4driven clippers and massaging vibrators,

for which purpose it has been custo'maryto provide a pairof such electrical appliances adapted to be 4connected interchangeably to a single electric motor. y.To support these, it has been customary to mount the motor on a floor stand, and' in order to havev this Vstand readily portable it has commonly been Consequently, such built of light weight.

by men gettingiuto the height at which the motor is desirably mounted for permitting the employment of a relatively short flexible shaft makes the stand somewhat top-heavy. Furthermore, the electrical connection from the motor to the supply of current requires a flexible cord over. which men are vapt to trip and which either drags along the floor for a considerable length to permit the desired varying in position of the stand, or else has to be disconnected from one socket and connected to another whenever the stand hasy to be changed in position.V Owing tothe presence of both the stand and the cordon the floor, accidents have been frequent and often expensive in the resulting repairs. l Y

To overcome .these and other ob'ections to the arrangement heretofore in use, my invention aims to provide supports land cennc'ctions for the electric motorand the appliances driven by the same, with the support lng means so arranged that the entireequipment will normally be above the heads of both the barbers and their patrons, so that the floor willstillbe left cleareven when the motor Vand the appliances are in operative position. Furthermore, my invention aims to arrange the supporting means so that the motor and `the appliances associated therewith can instantly be shifted from one to another o'l the various positions in which they can be conveniently` employed at the different chairs, and to provide automatic means for sustaining the motor and the appliances at various heights. Still further and also more detailed objects will appear from the following speciiicationfand from the accompanyingfdrawings, in which-'-l Figure 1 is a transverse. vertical section through one side of the barber shop equipped with my invention.

vFig..2 is an enlarged and fragmentary elevation taken at right angles `tovFig. 1 from the right hand side of Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged central and longitu' dinal section through, 4a portion of the trolleytube and parts lassociated. therewith.V

Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse vertical section taken along the line 1 -.4f` ofFig. 2.

In the drawings,.whichshow a desirable embodiment of my invention, though by no means the only advisable one, the lighting equipmenty of the shop includes a series of lamps 1 desirablylocated directly above the several barber chairs, each of' which lamps is supported by a bracket fixture from the adjacent wall of the shop. Each bracket fixture in the illustrations includesV a horizontal arm 2 connected to a diagonal support 3 by a coupling member 1. The lamp socket supported by each vbracket is con nected to the supply of current through wires concealed inone of the hollow bracket portions 2 or 3 after the usual manner, and the brackets are desirably equal in size and alined with each other parallel to the adjacent Wall, so that the coupling members tv are all in alinement.

Jointly supported by these coupling members, as by hanger brackets is a tube 6 which is slotted at its bottom as shown in Fig. 4. This tube affords a runway or track for the wheels 7 of a trolley which is here shown as including a web 8 extendin vertitically throughthe slot in the tube. ecured to a curved flange 9 on the lower end of this web 8 vis the casing 10 of a roller shade con- Y structed after the usual manner of spring ybrator.

shade rollers, but with a spring of unusual strength and tension for the purpose hereafter described. The curtain 11 associated with .the spring roller is of strong curtain material which carries at its lower end a carrier'member, such as a hook plate12 equipped with suitable formations for supporting both the electric motor and lthe appliances which. are to be used in connection withithe latter. For example, thisV carrier member may include a fork 13 to which the vmotor 14 is swiveled, and a pair of hooks 15 Vas automatically to keep the vcord approximately taut, while the spring used in connection with the roller is of such strength as yto wind the curtain 11 up readily when the hook plate 12 is lifted, and this roller` also has associated withit a suitable friction arrangementVV for holding the curtain in its raised .position against the weight of the parts supported by it, so as to prevent the curtain and the appliances 1from gradually ycreeping' downwardly when not wanted.

' With the parts arranged A as above described, it willbe obvious from .the drawings that with the curtain raised. the motor 18 and the appliances :associated therewith will normally be supported entirely out of the vrange Iof persons in the Shop, vthereby leaving the floor clear. .When either of the appliances is to be used, the entire shade roller mechanism is moved along its wheeled track longitudinally of the shop to a con venient position near the chair at which the appliance is -to be employed, and the curtain is then lowered so as to bring the'motor to a suitable height for enabling the flexible cord y to bring the appliance into convenient position for use. In doing this, the current supplying cord 16 follows the motor, this cord being automatically fed ofl' the reel 17, but correspondingly retracted when the appliance is hooked back on the plate 12 and the curtain is raised. Then the appliances .are again out of the way, ready to be moved whenever desired to some other chair in the shop.

As a further feature ofV myinvention, I

desirably equip either one or both faces of the curtain 11 with advertising matter, thereby enabling the owner of the shop to add to his earnings. "Such advertising when placed on the outerface of the curtain, or the right hand face in Fig. 1, is displayed after the usual manner, while that on the' opposite face is Vreversed side'forside, so that it will be readable when reflected from the wall mirror 19. However, while I have heretofore described my invention in an embodiment in which the trolley tube or track is supported by the, brackets of electric light lixtures, and in which I display advertising on both faces of the curtain, I do not wish to be limited to these or other details of theV lconstruction and arrangement above disclosed, it being obvious'that thel samemi bt be varied in many ways without departing from the spiritof the appended claims. y I claim as my inventiong.

1. In a barber shop appliance, in combination with an overhead support and a mirror disposed .rearwardly of the support, a rollmg curtain borne by the support, a barbers implement borne by the curtain, said curtain having a rear exposed surface to receive reversed advertising matter soV that same will be readably reflected'in the mirror and means 'to support the curtain under tension. l

2. In a barber shop appliance, an overhead track, a spring'roller, means to mount l the roller vfrom said track sothat the roller may be moved lengthwise of Vthe Vtrack and with its longitudinal axis parallel tofthe track, a curtain borne by the roller,anda device carried by the lower end of the curtain for supporting a barbers appliance. j A Y 3. Means for adjustably supporting electric appliances, including a holder for the appliances, a flexibleA curtain carrying lthe holder, and a spring roller to which the curtain is attached and on which itis adapted to be wound by the tension of the spring, the curtain having advertising legends on both faces thereof, and the legend on one face being reversed side for side, for readable reiection in a mirror.

4. Means for adjustably supporting electric appliances, including a holder for the appliances, a flexible curtain carrying the holder, and a spring roller to which the curtain is attached and on which it is adapted to be Wound by the tension of the spring, and shiftable mounting for the spring roller, whereby the aforesaid elements ma all be freely moved in directions longitu inal Yol the axis of the roller.

5. Means for adjustably supporting an electric appliance, including a spring roller shade having its lower end equipped for holding the said appliance, a track for the roller shade on which the latter is bodily shiftable longitudinally of its axis and With the latter parallel to the track, a flexible conductor leading to the electric appliance, and means shiftable With the roller shade for guiding the said conductor.

6. In a barber shop appliance, a track, an elongated casing, means to slidably support the casing from the track and with its longitudinal axis parallel to the track, a spring roller in the casing, a curtain borne by the roller, a motor support pivotallyborne by the free end of the curtain, and a barbers appliance flexibly connected to the motor.

7. Means for adjustably supportin a motor-driven appliance in a barber s op, comprising an overhead track, a spring shade roller suspended therefrom and movable lengthwise thereof and with its longitudinal axis parallel thereto, and supporting means carried by the shade of the roller for supporting the motor-driven appliance; the spring of the shade roller being of such strength as to balance the combined Weights of the said shade, appliance and supporting means.

8. In a barber shop appliance, a track, an elongated casing, means to slidably support the casing from the track and with its longitudinal axis parallel to the track, a spring roller in the casing, a curtain borne by the roller, an appliance support pivotally borne by the free end of the curtain, means to pivot the appliance in the support, said first means being perforated, and a take-up reel having a cord extending through the perforation of said means and connected to the appliance borne by the appliance support.

Signed at Chicago, November 15, 1919.

LOUIS H. OLDENBURG.' 

